THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 24 DECEMBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 24, 1968

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? THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
24 DECEMBER 1968
. Turkey
2, Iraq
Undaunted by their recent failure
to organize anti-US and antigovernment
demonstrations, leftist students will
probably try again in the next few days.
This time they are planning to oc-
cupy, and possibly sabotage a foreign-
financed factory.
near Istanbul. The students'
p n call for a two-part campaign
against foreign capital investment in
Turkey.
Phase two is only in the planning stage,
but it is tentatively scheduled for
March.
Since the Demirel government is
probably aware of these plans, it
should be able to cope with major dem-
onstrations. Individual acts of sabo-
tage, however, will be difficult to
prevent.
President Bakr's six-month-old
revolutionary government is preparing
to suppress another military coup at-
tempt, The latest rum-
blings indicate that middle-level offi-
cers are planning to take over the-gov-
ernment within the next week or two and
to turn it over to civilian control.
The incumbents, however, seem to know
about the plot and its chances for suc-
cess are slim.
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3. Lebanon
4. Nigeria
We doubt that federal troops will
honor Biafra's declaration of an eight-
day truce, which began at midnight
local time on 23 December. Federal
troops did not even observe a one-day
truce they themselves had announced for
last week, and there is ?no reason to
think they will hold off during a sec-
ond truce they have announced for Christ-
mas.
? The International Red Cross has
managed to get a 15-day extension from
the government of Equatorial Africa
authorizing continued relief flights
to Biafra. A new agreement on future
flights must be worked out during that
period.
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5. Czechoslovakia -
Soviet Union
6. Panama
Last week's trade agreement ties
the Czechoslovak economy more closely
,to the Soviets.
According to the few details we
have, the agreement calls for more of
the same--expanded Soviet exports of
fuels, raw materials, food, and tech-
nology, in return for Czech manufac-
tures.
Even though this agreement is somewhat
open-ended, we do not think it will be
an adequate substitute for the Western
technology which Prague had wanted.
These developments probably re-
inforce the growing impression within
Czechoslovakia that Dubcek is being
painted into a corner. In order to
maintain public order and control over
political developments, Dubcek has been
forced to warn that further "undemo-
cratic measures" might be necessary if
resistance to retrenchment is not ended.
Any such moves will cost him additional
support from the liberals, who up to
now have been his strongest backers.
The balance between the two lead-
ers of the military junta is beginning
to shift. Both men are still inter-
ested in maintaining unity, but compet-
ing National Guard factions are crystal-
lizing around them. If the rivalry be-
tween these factions becomes more in-
tense, there could be a falling out at
the top.
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1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
2.) North Vietnamese Reflections of US
Political Attitudes
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
24 December 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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Plans for Port Construction: Vice premier Le
Thanh Nghi, in a recent speech broadcast over Hanoi
Radio's domestic service, said that Haiphong harbor
"must be enlarged." He also asserted that "other
ports.. .are going to be built or enlarged."
Hon Gay, to the northeast of Haiphong, may be
one of those slated for expansion,i
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IL NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
:ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Hanoi Notes Criticism of Ky: Radio Hanoi, quot-
ing Western news agency dispatches, on 22 December
broadcast the derogatory comments made by Senators
Young and McGovern about South Vietnamese Vice Presi-
dent Ky. The brief statement over Hanoi's interna-
tional service also cited remarks by the senators that
the US should begin a troop withdrawal as soon as
possible.
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